The ban for orks is because if he's not paying attention/has a lot active then they start to act like orks. Ie super violent hooligans. Doing the impossible doesn't seem to come into it. Plus, orks doing the impossible is really overstated.
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They can continue to fire after their magizines have run dry/ had it destroyed. They can continue to fly a plane that has had its wings shot off, how is it being overstated?
And then they need to reload or they crash when shot. 40k isn't consistent with how much they can warp reality, and it also seems to require many orks for that to start to happen.
Also, as I said above, the implication from the author seemed to be that the problem was orks acting like orks (violent hooligans).
Tranquil Zebra
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Oh, it's very consistent in an ork-ish sort of way. After all, it's scientifically proven that
Red wunz go fasta!
On a wider comment on the story as a whole, I think that one thing that some people are missing is that while yes, temples did fight oni, warlords, and other forces of evil, they also worked with them quite often. It was honestly more of a fifty/fifty split than anything. Which kind if shows the difference in cultures. In Western myth and religion, a church working with demons for any reason at all would be damned as heretics. In Eastern folklore and religion, such things are actually common, so long as the creature or force in question is not a threat to those under the temple's protection.
It's like they don't know what a goddamned forum is or something. *sigh*
SB go through this sort of bullshit on a regular basis every couple of years. We'll just have to be patient and wait for its staff to get bored of being literary elitist dicks again.
To be fair that forum does have anti-spam rules built in and again the very owners were having problems with it, so really I can understand wanting to cut down spam, it costs more money to save more posts and if a lot of posts are just something that could be replaced by clicking on the like button then I too would be mad at spending money for pretty much nothing.
UnwelcomeStorm
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Basically this.
It's something that I understand why it's happening, but I don't exactly have to be happy about it. Particularly since, as per the rules of nails sticking out, Constellations got hammered on first and hard. And now it's under the Mod of Damocles, so even short-lived, mild derails (the Hobbit example had already ended by the time a Mod stepped in) get blown up over.
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While I agree with SB rules, they basically decided to be utterly draconian to Constellations. Yes, they claim it was just the first thread to receive the hammer, but I can't help but notice that it was also 1) a fast-moving thread at 2) a time that SB began implementing new-thread limits to reduce server load. This makes me suspicious that there was ulterior motives to target Constellations, and the mods just used it as a visible example. This certainly isn't helped by the fact that Constellation was and is still a very positive-attitude thread, when other just as long threads in CrW often devolve into nastiness.
In the end, the SB mods language is very discouraging of pure emotional reactions. This pretty much sanitizes discussions into dry analysis, if you don't want to draw mod attention. And since SB only has a "Like" button, I split time here on SV, where there's a bit more freedom of expression.
With that out of the way: UnwelcomeStorm, how could you go from the sheer hilarity of obaa-sans (and dogs) on Segways to the sad Armsmaster?! Don't keep us on this emotional rollercoaster!
thefluffyone
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Yeah, I'm fine with the small one liners and the posts consisting of nothing but a picture being frowned upon.
But to shut down posts because all they do is convey the emotion of the poster? What, me pressing 'Like' is supposed to convey all the feelings I have for this wonderful story? Yeah, no.
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Examples of temples/churches teaming up with "demons":
Hellsing, Ushio and Tora, and Touhou Project.
There are probably way more examples.
NemiTheNen
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Meh, at least isn't not another anime subforum debatacle. That killed one of my stories because I couldn't find the damn thing. (Zelda/Naruto, it got pingponged thrice, I think)
If they are going to be THAT draconian maybe they should, instead of handing out infractions like assholes, issue warnings and if the post ain't beefed up, delete it.
But...back on topic
You know what is needed?
Good doG licking Hunter!Taylor's face.
If they are going to be THAT draconian maybe they should, instead of handing out infractions like assholes, issue warnings and if the post ain't beefed up, delete it.
But...back on topic
You know what is needed?
Good doG licking Hunter!Taylor's face.
Except they did post warnings, three to four times with three to four mods doing warnings. Then there was a banner that has to be seen before posting and people still continued to post spam.
NemiTheNen
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And yet it didn't work.
People are happy, they want to express their happiness. If they are not erudite enough to please the mods they are infracted.
chocolote12
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They did. Multiple times. Really, they're not unreasonable; all you have to do is have something to say other than spam. Just putting a good joke in your post is enough to get over the line.
That's the posters fault. Yes, they're the Fun-Police, but they were getting Fun-noise complaints and they refused to turn it down.
I do believe that they had an episode about something like that. There were explosions.
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It's actually pretty consistant. They can keep doing things as long as they don't realize that they're not supposed to be able to do them. I think it's said that the Orks are all minor psychics so that's what allows them to pull their stunts off, only they don't know that so as long as they don't notice things like "my clip shouldn't have lasted this long" or "did I see a wing fall off my plane?" they can keep going like nothing happened.
Orks are the Loony Toons of Warhammer.
Speaking of Hellsing, if Danny plays a few games off one of these: "Hellsing Roleplay" and get a figure of the "Taker of Very Enthusiastic Walks", can he animate that?
ArchAIngel
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Well, if you want a fig that'll hard counter Endbringers, look for the Lady of Pain. Maze says hello!
ArchAIngel
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So long as nobody worships her, it'll be fiiiinnneee. What's the worst that could happen?
Czlyydwr Llrngwl
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And if The Fallen decide to worship her as a new, "queen Endbringer" that's fine too.
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You keep saying things like this, yet I never see you around in Sufficiently Sexy, the NSFW subforum...
His best bet would be to find something that's basically an if-I-play-this-I've-basically-won figurine - the tabletop equivalent of Yu-Gi-Oh's Exodia, The Forbidden One, or any of Magic: The Gathering's 10+ mana creatures: basically, if not literally, unbeatable, because they're supposed to be really hard to get out into play in the first place but a win condition if you do.
ArchAIngel
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I'm pretty sure that the Lady is a better choice. If she doesn't like you, you die and she leaves. If the Ebon Dragon doesn't like you, he fucks over the entire setting. And if he does like you, he fucks over the setting. It'd be like summoning the Chaos Gods.